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Riots spread across Jordan over 'vote-rigging'

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Protesters shout anti-regime slogans during a demonstration in Jordan’s capital Amman. Riots have spread across Jordan after the announcement of parliamentary election results which people in four provinces dispute. Violent clashes erupted on Thursday between police and protestors who accuse Jordan’s Independent Electoral Commission of vote-rigging, DPA reported. Police fired tear gas to disperse... 

30 dead, army deployed in Egypt as riot flares up in Port Said

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30 people have been killed, including two policemen, and more than 300 injured during a riot in Egypt’s Port Said. The army has since been deployed, where a crowd attempted to storm a prison after death sentence’s were handed out for a past riot. The deadly assault follows the sentencing of 21 people to death for the riot and stampede in Port Said in which dozens were killed last February. As... 

NRA attacks Obama’s gun control plans

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Protesters hold a rally against the National Rifle Association lobby group on December 17, 2012, in Washington, DC. America’s top-gun lobby, the National Rifle Association (NRA), has attacked President Barack Obama’s gun control plans, describing them as an attack on firearms. The NRA issued a statement on Wednesday saying the president’s proposals only targeted law-abiding gun owners and... 

Thousands rally against US anti-adoption law in Moscow

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Some 9,500 people have marched in central Moscow against the so-called Dima Yakovlev anti-adoption law. The protest has been peaceful, with no arrests made. ­Despite the freezing temperatures in Russia’s capital this weekend, Kremlin critics and opponents of the ban converged on the Boulevard Ring for the protest they dubbed ‘Against the Scoundrels’, referring to State Duma lawmakers who approved... 

Hundreds of thousands protest against gay marriage law in Paris

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Three hundred thousand people took to the streets of Paris to oppose plans by Socialist President Francois Hollande to enact a same-sex marriage law by June. Several hundred thousand demonstrators filled the streets of Paris during a protest against President Francois Hollande’s plans to legalize gay marriage later this year. The proposed law would allow same-sex couples to adopt children. The protesters,... 

Chinese media distance themselves from Beijing in censorship row

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A pro-party daily lambasted anti-censorship strikers in China’s Guangzhou, saying their “issue will see no surprise ending.” Several major outlets reposted the piece only with disclaimers, prompting speculation they’d taken a stand against Beijing. ­On Monday, all five of China’s major web portals started publishing an editorial put together by the Global Times, a tabloid associated with... 

Hungary students to call mass protests amid pending educational reforms

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Demonstrators made up of university students, teachers, doctors and artists shout anti-government slogans in central Budapest on December 17, 2012. Hungarian students have threatened to stage mass protests unless the government meets their demands of higher education reforms. The government has until February 11 to settle a month-long standoff or student networks will launch protests across the country,... 

Jobless Spanish man dies in hospital after self-immolation

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Spaniards protest against austerity measures in the capital Madrid, December 17, 2012. A jobless Spanish man has died at a hospital after setting himself on fire, only two days after another Spaniard self-immolated on social and economic grounds. The 63-year-old man, who suffered from financial problems, died in the Carlos Haya hospital in the southern city of Malaga on Friday. Police officials issued... 

Gang-raped Indian girl commits suicide after police refuses to help

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Demonstrators react as police in New Delhi fire tear gas during a protest calling for better safety for women following the rape of a student, December 22, 2012. An Indian teenager who fell victim to a gang rape has committed suicide, a police official says. Inspector General Paramjit Singh Gill said on Thursday that the 17-year-old girl had been “running from pillar to post to get her case registered”... 

Argentina links union officials to riots

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Argentinean President Christina Kirchner’s government has blamed two top officials from the country’s trade unions for organizing a wave of protests, which has resulted in the deaths of four people and injured some 100 others, says a Press TV report. A day before the violent incidents last week, General Confederation of Labor (CGT) Secretary-General, Hugo Moyano, and Pablo Micheli, the head of... 

Thousands of Slovenians hold anti-austerity protest in Ljubljana

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Demonstrators take part in an anti-government protest in Ljubljana, Slovenia on December 21, 2012. Thousands of Slovenians have taken to the streets in the capital Ljubljana to express their anger over new austerity measures imposed by the government. The demonstration, which was reportedly attended by more than 5,000 people, took place on Friday near the country’s parliament where protesters chanted... 

Argentineans stage anti-government rally over financial woes

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Thousands of Argentinean workers have streamed into the streets of Buenos Aires to demand higher pays and lower income taxes, Press TV reports. In the third anti-government rally in Argentina since August, top trade unions demonstrated against President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner government’s economic policies and the country’s spiraling inflation on Thursday. Protesters, backed by the trade... 

Spain parliament approves harsh austerity measures

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Demonstrators hold “No” signs while surrounding the Spanish parliament to protest against spending cuts in Madrid. The Spanish parliament has adopted a 39-billion-euro (52-billion-US dollar) austerity package as the debt-ridden eurozone country battles to reduce its budget deficit. On Thursday, the lawmakers voted for the cuts in the 2013 budget, which slashes spending for health care and education,... 

Hungarian MP detained for burning Israeli flag

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Hungarian parliamentarian Balazs Lenhardt burns an Israeli flag during an anti-Zionist protest in the capital Budapest on Friday. Hungarian police have briefly arrested a parliamentarian for torching an Israeli flag during an anti-Zionist protest in the capital Budapest. The incident took place on Friday when dozens of Hungarians held a demonstration near the Foreign Ministry to protest Israeli’s... 

Jobs Are Being Sent To China And They Aren't Coming Back

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Did you see the huge crowds of protesters that flooded the Michigan Capitol on Tuesday? They were there to protest two bills there were being considered by the state legislature that would limit the power of unions in the state. Michigan lawmakers approved the bills and this absolutely infuriated the protesters. There is a lot of passion on both sides of this debate, but I am afraid that both sides... 
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